Signs and symptoms of peripheral neuropathy might include: 1  Gradual onset of numbness, prickling or tingling in your feet or hands, which can spread upward into your legs and arms.  Sharp, jabbing, throbbing, freezing or burning pain.
Case Study of Adjacent Segment Disease. A patient with a 2-year-old anterior cervical discectomy and fusion at the c5-c6 level presents with pain in the neck, or cervical spine, increased with movement. MRI findings indicate clinically significant disc disease in the levels adjacent to the cervical fusion at C4-C5 and C6-C7.
In these types of cases, when the proximate diagnosis is the main reason for home care, it is reported as the primary diagnosis and the underlying condition is a secondary diagnosis. Occasionally the proximate diagnosis is taken from Chapter 16 symptom codes, as in the abnormality of gait example above.